Well, maybe the crew decided on that approach because it was the one coming into the helipad with the least amount of overflying stuff on the ground?? As I see it, that 100% tailwind indication might be due to the downwash, or at least amplified by it..(as picture 6 in the series below would suggest)
Now, if you're doing V-ref production longline into a lot of different places, you WILL find yourself quite often in tail-wind or in downdrafts, or you have been fortunate enough to not fly in really challenging places......yet.
As for flying heavy helicopters onto small pads, I am just assuming your're flying offshore and with all due respect for that, you allways have two different headings for doing the approach no?! Or landing at an alternate rig, or going home as a last option?
Allways do it into the wind when you have the option, but at least from my experience allthough my average is not as low as 20% of approaches, they are far from being the odd ones either.
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